A recent study out of Italy links statin drugs to increased telomerase activity and slower shortening of telomeres. If you read my blogs you know this is not the first time such an association has been found. Back in March of this year I reviewed another article predicting we would see more of this. And …
Statins and Human Aging- Big Pharma Jumps on Board? Read More »
For the past decade and a half at least a billion dollars in research marketing and publicity money was spent trying to find a home for a class of epigenetic molecules (histone deacetylases) known as sirtuins. If this sentence has your finger hovering over the mouse, ready to move onto something more interesting and familiar, …
Over the past few years chocolate has garnered a lot of attention as a health food. Some people have even decided it’s a “super food”, capitalizing on a category that seems to encompass everything your grandmother told you to eat when you were growing up, along with some exotic Far Eastern fruits. Well, recently chocolate …
In the very beginning of our book The Immortality Edge, in my forward, I quote Neil Armstong: “One small step for many, one giant step for mankind,” rendering my opinion on the importance of telomerase therapy and telomere science. That opinion is passing from an opinion to fact. This past week saw several major releases …
A giant step for mankind that started with a mouse! Read More »
Your mother always told you not to exercise late at night, as it would disturb your sleep. Of course, she was right and nowadays, with the sophisticated sleep studies and the ability to measure hormone levels, including melatonin (the sleep hormone), we can find out all the reasons why. The simplest explanation may be the …